Who the hell goes to those comic book movies?

"Am i out of touch? No its deffinitely all the people that account for 2.1 billion dollars in ticket sales"

There were very few children at the screening of deadpool I was at.......

VinLieger wrote: »

"Am i out of touch? No its deffinitely all the people that account for 2.1 billion dollars in ticket sales"

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Woke Hogan wrote: »

Only children should read comic books in my view.

Your views are wrong though.

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

I had the two young lads for the weekend, and one of them said he wanted to go to the cinema to see this movie called Avengers: End Game. The other fella had already gone to see it, but was happy to go again. Paid almost the price of a fill of diesel to get so all in the door and fed, but that's for another day.


What sort of adults go to see that sort of movie? Jesus, it was terrible muck. Dislikable characters, stupid plot, using special effects to hide up that lack of plot, and noise everywhere. I'd rather go round a nursing home tending to bunions and corns that spend 3 hours watching that horseshít. There was a bad guy in it called Thermos and he said he wanted the universe to end so he could start it over. 'You and me both, pal' I thought. Then I was supposed to feel sympathy for The Ironman character, even though he came across as an arrogant and contrived egomaniac.


So why are they so popular? Do people have the attention span of a goldfish these days, and find their sort of generic and formulaic claptrap to be entertaining?

Woke Hogan wrote: »

I find it very worrying that adults go to see these films. I will be turning 60 next year and if you had told me thirty years ago that grown men would actually look forward to seeing a Batman film I would have thought you were insane.

Society has been grossly infantilised. I saw a man who looked no younger than thirty in a Bart Simpson T shirt last week. I doubt he’s a big reader of any books without pictures, that’s for sure.

Ahh but when I was a young whipper snapper I read comics, started with Beano then marvel, some DC but not much, 2000AD etc.

I remember having Ironman posters on my wall and taking it down to put up the poster of the Countach.

I loved the comics and have seen every one of the Marvel movies. My kids love them as well and read the comics.

I still read, have bookcases jammed with books, boxes of books in sheds and the attic, kindles full of books, everything from Biography's to History, to Politics, to Science Fiction, to Medical and Engineering Journals, to Business books, engineering books, space opera, Lee Child, George RR Martin, early Tom Clancy, Con Igullden, alternative history. I will read pretty much anything.

My kids have started reading and are both hoovering up books.

And it all started with the comics.

You watch one movie in a huge gigantic series, where hours were spent building characters and background, back history and subplots and you have written off the entire genre.

Comics started my love of reading, my thirst for info, the movies allow me to relive my youth, and for 2 to 3 hours enjoy some simple fantasy fun with my kids.

And as for Iron Man. What is he without the suit, just a Genius, playboy, Billionaire philanthropist.. who as a kid made me want to learn everything there was to know about math science and engineering..

Perhaps I would have been better off idolizing some overpaid primadonna chase an inflated pigs bladder around a field. But we will never know.

I actually wish I enjoyed them, as there's never anything else in the cinemas. I did go and see that Wolverine one where he dies, and that was actually pretty good.

Pintman Paddy Losty wrote: »

Not exactly a bookshelf I'd be bragging about mate. Reading a Tom Clancy novel is hardly challenging yourself intellectually.

So from that you pulled Tom Clancy and the fact that I was bigging myself up intellectually ??

Sick to the back teeth of them. I like going to the cinema for all sorts of films, but they've really taken the piss with the amount of these, which one way or another is taking the space of something at least NOT a comic film.

Also, there is apparently a new phenomenon of these fans going to see them multiple times in a row. Fools and money. So I doubt it's millions of people seeing them, more like the same 5 people going a million times each